Buffalo Stampede

The legendary Western author’s classic novel of buffalo hunting in the Great Plains is presented here in its fully restored original text. On his first trip out West, Zane Grey became friends with Buffalo Jones, the “last of the plainsmen” as he called him. Jones had been witness to the great herds of buffalo that once ranged on the Great Plains, and he had participated in the hunts that led to their destruction. In early 1923, Grey wrote an epic story of the great buffalo hunt and the battle between the Plains Indians and the buffalo hunters. When Grey sold his manuscript to the editors of Ladies’ Home Journal, he was asked to make extensive changes in the structure and tone of the story. Once these changes were made, the Grey’s original vision was as decimated as the great buffalo herds. Fortunately, the original manuscript survived and is presented here in Buffalo Stampede. At last, Zane Grey’s magnificent panorama of the war for and against the buffalo has been restored, with its violent and furious action and tone of elegiac sadness for the passing of those mighty, noble herds.